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| Pooja Nair, J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School 2011. |
Litigating Against the Forced Sterilization of Hiv-positive Women: Recent Developments in Chile and Namibia |
23 Harvard Human Rights Journal 223 (Spring 2010) |
In response to rising Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infection rates, poverty, and overpopulation, some nations have resorted to a policy of forcibly sterilizing HIV-positive women in order to prevent the transmission of HIV during childbirth. Such forced sterilization violates a woman's fundamental right to control her own body and her right...; Search Snippet: ...Recent Development Litigating Against the Forced Sterilization of Hiv-positive Women: Recent Developments in Chile and Namibia Pooja Nair J.d. Candidate... |
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| Leslye E. Orloff , Kathryn C. Isom , Edmundo Saballos |
Mandatory U-visa Certification Unnecessarily Undermines the Purpose of the Violence Against Women Act's Immigration Protections and its "Any Credible Evidence" Rules--a Call for Consistency |
11 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 619 (2010) |
I. Background and Legislative History of VAWA's Any Credible Evidence Standard of Proof Provisions 622 A. From Coverture to the Immigration Act of 1990's Battered Spouse Waiver 622 B. The Immigration and Naturalization Service's Implementation of the Battered Spouse Waiver 624 C. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994's Response: Any Credible...; Search Snippet: ...Visa Certification Unnecessarily Undermines the Purpose of the Violence Against Women Act's Immigration Protections and its Any Credible Evidence Rules--a... |
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| Ellen Dannin |
Marriage and Law Reform: Lessons from the Nineteenth-century Michigan Married Women's Property Acts |
20 Texas Journal of Women and the Law L. 1 (Fall 2010) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 3 II. THE STUDY. 9 A. The Motivation for the Study. 9 B. Theories to be Tested. 10 C. Background Information on the Deeds Examined. 11 D. Data From the First Deeds Study. 12 E. Data From the Second Deeds Study. 21 III. DO THE RESULTS FIT WITH THEORIES AS TO WHY THE MICHIGAN MWPA WAS ENACTED?. 22 A. Debtor Relief. 23 B. Women's...; Search Snippet: ...And Law Reform: Lessons from the Nineteenth-century Michigan Married Women's Property Acts Ellen Dannin [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 Texas Journal... |
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| Richard Collier |
Masculinities, Law, and Personal Life: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Men, Law, and Gender |
33 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 431 (Summer 2010) |
I. Introduction. 431 II. Contexts: The Masculinity Turn in Legal Scholarship. 434 A. Men, Masculinities, and Feminist Legal Studies. 435 III. The Critical Study of Men, Masculinities, and Law. 444 A. Background: The Pro-Feminist Study of Masculinities. 444 B. On the Man of Law: Legal Texts, Practices, Experiences, and Policy. 446 C. Law,...; Search Snippet: ...Life: Towards a New Framework for Understanding Men, Law, and Gender Richard Collier [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 the President and Fellows... |
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| Dean Spade, Gabriel Arkles, Phil Duran, Pooja Gehi, Huy Nguyen, Introduction Author and Interview Facilitator, Transgender Advocates |
Medicaid Policy & Gender-confirming Healthcare for Trans People: an Interview with Advocates |
8 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 497 (Spring/Summer, 2010) |
Access to healthcare is a significant issue in the United States, especially for populations facing disproportionate poverty, medical abuse, and discriminatory denial of treatment. Trans people live at a complex crossroads-- the law defines us through medical norms by requiring medical evidence of our gender at every turn, yet many laws and...; Search Snippet: ...Spring/summer, 2010 Transgender Issues and the Law Medicaid Policy & Gender-confirming Healthcare for Trans People: an Interview with Advocates Dean... |
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| Mary Vasaly |
Men in Black: Gender Diversity and the Eighth Circuit Bench |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 1703 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 1703 II. Why is the Eighth Circuit Important?. 1705 III. Why Gender Diversity is Central to the Concept of Equal Justice for All. 1706 IV. History of Efforts to Increase Diversity in the Eighth Circuit. 1712 V. Why is it Harder to Achieve Diversity in the Federal System?. 1713 VI. What We are Doing About It. 1716 VII. Conclusion....; Search Snippet: ...Mitchell Law Review 2010 the Eighth Circuit Men in Black: Gender Diversity and the Eighth Circuit Bench Mary Vasaly [Fnd1] Copyright... |
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| Ann Varley |
Modest Expectations: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Mexico |
44 Law and Society Review 67 (March, 2010) |
This article examines gender and property in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the light of debates that oppose formal title to the social embeddedness of rights in customary law and assert that titling is bad for women. The article focuses on urban homes, private property, and civil law but finds that qualities regarded as characterizing customary property...; Search Snippet: ...Review Law and Society Review March, 2010 Article Modest Expectations: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Mexico Ann Varley [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Kelly Lynn Anders , Washburn University, kelly.anders@washburn.edu |
Movies with Women Lawyers as Leading Characters |
79-JUN Journal of the Kansas Bar Association 11 (June, 2010) |
My wife is a lawyer, and she loves television shows about lawyers. If it involves the law, lawyers, or law firms, she'll watch it. She especially enjoys shows with minority female lawyer characters. I think it's probably helpful for her to see these images because she sometimes feels isolated. She is the only lawyer in our family, and we don't have...; Search Snippet: ...Association June, 2010 Regular Feature the Diversity Corner Movies with Women Lawyers as Leading Characters Kelly Lynn Anders [Fna1] Washburn University... |
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| Rebecca A. Hart |
No Exceptions Made: Sexual Assault Against Native American Women and the Denial of Reproductive Healthcare Services |
25 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 209 (Fall 2010) |
Introduction. 211 I. Sexual Assault in Indian Country. 216 A. The Epidemic of Sexual Assault in Indian Country. 216 B. The Federal Trust Relationship and Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country. 217 i. Federal and Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction over Sexual Assault Committed by a Native American. 218 ii. Federal and Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction over...; Search Snippet: ...Society Fall 2010 Articles No Exceptions Made: Sexual Assault Against Native American Women and the Denial of Reproductive Healthcare Services Rebecca A. Hart... |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| Dionne L. Koller |
Not Just One of the Boys: a Post-feminist Critique of Title Ix's Vision for Gender Equity in Sports |
43 Connecticut Law Review 401 (December, 2010) |
Title IX as applied to athletics is a high-profile, controversial public policy effort that has opened up the world of athletics to millions of girls and women. Yet as it is both celebrated for the opportunities it has created for women, and decried as going too far at the expense of men, a reality persists that women do not pursue or remain...; Search Snippet: ...2010 Article Not Just One of the Boys: a Post- Feminist Critique of Title Ix's Vision for Gender Equity in Sports Dionne L. Koller [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011... |
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| Danielle Sollars |
Note: Gender Balance in the Judiciary: Why Does it Matter? |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 1721 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 1722 II. Background. 1723 A. The Minnesota Task Force for Gender Fairness in the Courts. 1723 B. Gender Balance on the Eighth Circuit and the Supreme Court. 1725 1. Women (Woman) and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. 1725 2. Women and the United States Supreme Court. 1728 III. Do Men and Women Decide Cases Differently?. 1729 A....; Search Snippet: ...The Courts Student Writing Competition Winner: Courtroom Environment Category Note: Gender Balance in the Judiciary: Why Does it Matter? Danielle Sollars... |
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| Joanne Belknap |
Offending Women: a Double Entendre |
100 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 1061 (Summer 2010) |
Two of the most significant contributions of feminist criminology since the 1970s are the documentation of (1) the significant amount of violence against women and girls perpetrated by men and boys; and (2) how girls' and women's victimizations and trauma, often at the hands of abusive men, are risk factors for their subsequent offending or...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium: a Century of Criminal Justice Iii. The People Offending Women : a Double Entendre Joanne Belknap [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 Northwestern... |
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| Kim Shayo Buchanan |
Our Prisons, Ourselves: Race, Gender and the Rule of Law |
29 Yale Law and Policy Review 1 (Fall 2010) |
Introduction. 2 I. The Prison Rape Narrative. 12 II. Real Men vs. Sissies: The Heterosexual Defense. 23 A. The Legal Response to Sexual Abuse in Prison. 23 1. Underenforcement. 25 2. Be a man. Stand up and fight. . 29 3. You're gay. You must have liked it. . 32 B. Dominance and Sexuality: Making Men. 37 1. Masculinities and the Social Meaning...; Search Snippet: ...And Policy Review Fall 2010 Article Our Prisons, Ourselves: Race, Gender and the Rule of Law Kim Shayo Buchanan [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Kamille Wolff |
Out of Many, One People; E Pluribus Unum: an Analysis of Self-identity in the Context of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture |
18 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 747 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 748 II. Self-Identity and Ethnicity. 750 A. Self-Identity Viewed Through the Immigrant Lens. 750 B. Self-Identity and Nationality. 752 C. Self-Identity in the Shape of Ethnic Consciousness. 756 III. Self-Identity and Culture. 764 A. Music as Cultural Expression. 764 1. Reggae and Reggaetón. 764 2. The Hip Hop Movement. 768 IV....; Search Snippet: ...Describing the Jamaican Coat of Arms as a Male and Female Flanking a Shield). See Generally Helen I. Safa, Popular Culture... |
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| Meera E. Deo , Maria Woodruff , Rican Vue , Thomas Jefferson School of Law, UCLA, UCLA |
Paint by Number? How the Race and Gender of Law School Faculty Affect the First-year Curriculum |
29 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review Rev. 1 (2010) |
While there is a relatively standard first-year curriculum at all ABA-accredited law schools in the U.S., no two classrooms are identical. This article examines how the race and gender of law school faculty affect both what is taught in the first year and how that material is taught. Using focus group data from a national, longitudinal,...; Search Snippet: ...Review 2010 Articles Paint by Number? How the Race and Gender of Law School Faculty Affect the First-year Curriculum Meera... |
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| Maia Goodell |
Physical-strength Rationales for De Jure Exclusion of Women from Military Combat Positions |
34 Seattle University Law Review 17 (Fall, 2010) |
In his first State of the Union Address, President Obama pledged, This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are. It's the right thing to do. Since its foundation, our country has struggled with the legal and social...; Search Snippet: ...2010 Article Physical-strength Rationales for De Jure Exclusion of Women from Military Combat Positions Maia Goodell [Fnd1] Copyright © 2010 By... |
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| Angela Mae Kupenda , Letitia Simmons Johnson , Ramona Seabron-Williams |
Political Invisibility of Black Women: Still Suspect but No Suspect Class |
50 Washburn Law Journal 109 (Fall 2010) |
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. Black women have been doubly victimized by scholarly neglect and racist assumptions. Belonging as they do to two groups which have traditionally been treated as inferiors by American society--Blacks and women--they have been doubly invisible. History...; Search Snippet: ...Washburn Law Journal Fall 2010 Article Political Invisibility of Black Women: Still Suspect but No Suspect Class Angela Mae Kupenda [Fna1... |
2010 |
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| Rachel J. Anderson |
Promoting Distributional Equality for Women: Some Thoughts on Gender and Global Corporate Citizenship in Foreign Direct Investment |
32 Women's Rights Law Reporter 1 (Fall, 2010) |
This essay applies a legal theory of global corporate citizenship to the question of women's distributional equality in foreign direct investment (FDI). It proposes ways that a legal theory of mandatory global corporate citizenship can expand the ways we think about regulating transnational corporations and promoting gender equality. Gender...; Search Snippet: ...Presentations: Women, Law, and the Economy Promoting Distributional Equality for Women: Some Thoughts on Gender and Global Corporate Citizenship in Foreign Direct Investment Rachel J... |
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| Carissa Byrne Hessick |
Race and Gender as Explicit Sentencing Factors |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 127 (Fall 2010) |
Most modern sentencing systems in the United States express an explicit commitment to ensuring that a defendant's sentence is not affected by the defendant's race or gender. This commitment to keeping criminal sentencing free of race and gender considerations is consistent with the wider legal trend of eradicating race and gender discrimination...; Search Snippet: ...And the Law Criminal Sentencing Guidelines Conference Articles Race and Gender as Explicit Sentencing Factors Carissa Byrne Hessick [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Sarah Deer |
Relocation Revisited: Sex Trafficking of Native Women in the United States |
36 William Mitchell Law Review 621 (2010) |
I. Introduction. 622 II. Historical Overview: Preliminary Notes on Context. 630 III. Enslavement. 632 A. Pre-Colonial Human Captivity. 633 B. Indian Slavery under Spanish and Portuguese Law. 636 C. Indian Slavery under English Law. 638 D. Indian Slavery under French Law. 639 E. Indian Slavery in the United States. 640 IV. Exploitation. 640 A....; Search Snippet: ...Review 2010 Indian Law Relocation Revisited: Sex Trafficking of Native Women in the United States Sarah Deer [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2010... |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| Margareth Etienne |
Sentencing Women: Reassessing the Claims of Disparity |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 73 (Fall 2010) |
Despite its title, this Article is perhaps as much about sentencing men as it is about sentencing women. Any account of how courts sentence female defendants is incomplete without some understanding of how courts sentence male defendants. This is so in part because one of the most intractable puzzles in sentencing law is the notable disparity...; Search Snippet: ...Economics, and the Law Criminal Sentencing Guidelines Conference Articles Sentencing Women: Reassessing the Claims of Disparity Margareth Etienne [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Amanda Kloer |
Sex Trafficking and Hiv/aids a Deadly Junction for Women and Girls |
37-SPG Human Rights 8 (Spring, 2010) |
A way out of no way, it's flesh out of flesh, it's courage that cries out at night; A way out of no way, it's flesh out of flesh, it's bravery kept out of sight; A way out of no way, it's too much to ask, it's too much of a task for any one woman.--Oughta Be A Woman, by Sweet Honey in the Rock The nexus of the global epidemics of sex...; Search Snippet: ...2010 Sex Trafficking and Hiv/aids a Deadly Junction for Women and Girls Amanda Kloer [Fna1] Copyright © 2010 by American Bar Association; Amanda... |
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| William N. Eskridge, Jr. |
Sexual and Gender Variation in American Public Law: from Malignant to Benign to Productive |
57 UCLA Law Review 1333 (June, 2010) |
Sexuality, gender, and the law now constitutes an important field of legal inquiry and scholarship. This Article traces the evolution of the big idea in this area: Contrary to natural law assumptions, the nation is moving decisively toward the norm that sexual and gender variation are typically benign and not malignant. Today, this liberal norm...; Search Snippet: ...Gender Law: Assessing the Field, Envisioning the Future Sexual and Gender Variation in American Public Law: from Malignant to Benign To... |
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| Marisa Rothstein |
Sharing the Stage: Using Title Vii to End Discrimination Against Female Playwrights on Broadway |
17 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 171 (2010) |
It's time to hear both sides, to hear all voices, to build a culture where stories are told by both men and women. That is the way the planet is going to survive, and it's the way we are going to survive. - Theresa Rebeck, American playwright In the 2008-2009 season, women wrote only ten of the seventy-eight shows produced on Broadway. This...; Search Snippet: ...Sharing the Stage: Using Title Vii to End Discrimination Against Female Playwrights on Broadway Marisa Rothstein [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 Yeshiva... |
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| Adele M. Morrison |
Straightening Up: Black Women Law Professors, Interracial Relationships, and Academic Fit(ting) in |
33 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 85 (Winter 2010) |
In Making Up Is Hard to Do: Race/Gender/Sexual Orientation in the Law School Classroom, Professors Robert Chang and Adrienne Davis write of the tools that people of color, women, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons use in order to fit into the role of law professor. They further explore how those same groups are perceived,...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Gender Winter 2010 Article Straightening Up: Black Women Law Professors, Interracial Relationships, and Academic Fit(ting) in Adele... |
2010 |
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| Bridgette Baldwin |
Stratification of the Welfare Poor: Intersections of Gender, Race, & "Worthiness" in Poverty Discourse and Policy |
6 Modern American 4 (Spring, 2010) |
On average, we black women have bigger, better problems than any other women alive. We bear the burden of being seen as pretenders to the thrones of both femininity and masculinity, endlessly mocked by the ambiguously gendered crown-of-thorns imagery of queen Madame Queen, snap queen, welfare queen, quota queen, Queenie Queen, Queen Queen Queen....; Search Snippet: ...American Spring, 2010 Stratification of the Welfare Poor: Intersections of Gender, Race, & Worthiness in Poverty Discourse and Policy Bridgette Baldwin [Fn1... |
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| Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro |
Successes and Further Goals for Women in the Workforce |
37-SUM Human Rights 9 (Summer, 2010) |
The fifteenth anniversary of the Beijing Conference on Women, explored in this issue of Human Rights, marks an important milestone. And, like all milestones, it represents an occasion for us to pause and reflect on women's long national journey toward full equality--both in how far we have come, and how much further we still need to go. In terms of...; Search Snippet: ...Rights Human Rights Summer, 2010 Successes and Further Goals for Women in the Workforce Congresswoman Rosa L. Delauro [Fna1] Copyright © 2010... |
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| Jeanine DeBor |
Suffragists, Unite!: Remembering the Struggle for Women's Suffrage |
12 No. 5 Lawyers Journal J. 7 (2/26/2010) |
Constitutional Amendment XIX, passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and ratified Aug. 18, 1920, states that The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. As we look toward the 90th anniversary of women's right to vote, a brief history of the long and painful...; Search Snippet: ...The Law Division Page Suffragists, Unite!: Remembering the Struggle for Women's Suffrage Jeanine Debor [Fna1] Copyright © 2010 by Allegheny County Bar... |
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| Nancy E. Dowd |
The "F" Factor: Fineman as Method and Substance |
59 Emory Law Journal 1191 (2010) |
Martha Fineman's latest volume continues her long tradition of challenging, unraveling, and moving forward the dialogue of equality and justice. In this latest volume to emerge from the Feminism and Legal Theory Project (FLTP), Fineman, together with her co-editors, Jack Jackson and Adam Romero, has gathered an extraordinary group of scholars who...; Search Snippet: ...The F Factor: Fineman as Method and Substance Review of Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations, Edited By... |
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| Asmara M. Tekle |
The "Non-maternal Wall" and Women of Color in High Governmental Office |
35 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 169 (Spring, 2010) |
Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Justice Sonia Sotomayor are renowned and to be admired for their ascendance to the heights of American government, a feat that few individuals, let alone women of color, have achieved. What these highly accomplished women are less well known for, however, is their ability to balance motherhood and a...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Spring, 2010 Articles the Non-maternal Wall and Women of Color in High Governmental Office Asmara M. Tekle [Fna1... |
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| Felice Batlan |
The Birth of Legal Aid: Gender Ideologies, Women, and the Bar in New York City, 1863-1910 |
28 Law and History Review 931 (November, 2010) |
At the New York Legal Aid Society's twenty-fifth anniversary banquet in 1901, Arthur von Briesen, the Society's longtime president, ended the evening with the following acknowledgement: Before we separate I beg to be permitted to say a few words on . the valuable aid which the Society has received from the women of New York. I want you to...; Search Snippet: ...History Review November, 2010 Article the Birth of Legal Aid: Gender Ideologies, Women, and the Bar in New York City, 1863-1910 Felice... |
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| Bridget J. Crawford |
The Currency of White Women's Hair in a down Economy |
32 Women's Rights Law Reporter 45 (Fall, 2010) |
Women want choices, especially when it comes to their hair. At just about any suburban drugstore, a woman of moderate means can buy hundreds of different hair dyes, gels, sprays, oils, shampoos, and conditioning treatments. On sale are hair combs, brushes, clips, rollers, bows, crimpers, irons, and even extensions, just an aisle or two away from...; Search Snippet: ...Presentations: Women, Law, and the Economy the Currency of White Women's Hair in a down Economy Bridget J. Crawford [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| John Sarto |
The Disproportionate Representation of Women in Subprime Lending: Cause, Effect, and Remedies |
31 Women's Rights Law Reporter 337 (Winter/Spring 2010) |
Home ownership is an American obsession which explains why most Americans are willing to make dramatic sacrifices in order to own a home. Because it has given many more people the ability to purchase homes, it is not a surprise that subprime lending has become pervasive in the last decade. Recently, however, subprime lending has contributed to...; Search Snippet: ...Winter/spring 2010 December 2010 Note the Disproportionate Representation of Women in Subprime Lending: Cause, Effect, and Remedies John Sarto [Fna1... |
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| Jillian T. Weiss |
The First Amendment Right to Free Exercise of Religion, Nondiscrimination Statutes Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and the Free Exercise Claims of Non-church-related Employers |
12 Florida Coastal Law Review 15 (Fall 2010) |
In a number of recent political issue campaigns regarding the enactment of employment protections law based on sexual orientation and gender identity, opponents of such laws have often raised concerns about the infringement on the religious freedoms of business owners. While there are often legislative exemptions for churches and other religious...; Search Snippet: ...Exercise of Religion, Nondiscrimination Statutes Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, and the Free Exercise Claims of Non-church-related... |
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| Leeron Avnery |
The Gender Gap: a Persistent Problem That Congress Has Yet to Address |
16 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 395 (Winter, 2010) |
It is a well-known fact that women are noticeably outnumbered in the workplace when it comes to careers in math, engineering, and the sciences. This is what is known as a gender gap: a disproportionate difference or disparity between the sexes. What may not be as familiar to many is the concept of a gender gap in middle schools and high schools...; Search Snippet: ...Protecting Women's Privacy in the Most Important Places Notes the Gender Gap: a Persistent Problem That Congress Has Yet to Address... |
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| Elizabeth J. Kennedy |
The Invisible Corner: Expanding Workplace Rights for Female Day Laborers |
31 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 126 (2010) |
Governmental approaches to regulating day labor markets have focused principally on industries such as construction, landscaping and agriculture, in which day labor is performed almost exclusively by men. Legal and social science scholarship regarding day labor has largely ignored the significant numbers of women working in domestic industries like...; Search Snippet: ...Law 2010 Articles the Invisible Corner: Expanding Workplace Rights for Female Day Laborers Elizabeth J. Kennedy [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2010 The... |
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| Carrie Griffin Basas |
The New Boys: Women with Disabilities and the Legal Profession |
25 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 32 (Spring 2010) |
This essay fuses the fields of law, feminist theory, and cultural studies to examine the status of women attorneys with disabilities. It is the first study of its kind in the United States. The author conducted an empirical, qualitative, and ethnographic study of thirty-eight women attorneys with disabilities in the United States. Their...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender, Law & Justice Spring 2010 Article the New Boys: Women with Disabilities and the Legal Profession Carrie Griffin Basas [Fnd1... |
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| Gary Ford |
The New Jim Crow: Male and Female, South and North, from Cradle to Grave, Perception and Reality: Racial Disparity and Bias in America's Criminal Justice System |
11 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 323 (2010) |
The new Jim Crow is the criminal justice system and its impact on poor people in general and people of colour in particular. Desre'e Watson, a six year-old black girl was arrested and charged with a felony for disruption of her kindergarten class. Shaquanda Cotton, a fifteen-year old black girl with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2010 Article the New Jim Crow: Male and Female, South and North, from Cradle to Grave, Perception and Reality... |
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| Diane Crothers |
The Origins of the Women's Rights Law Reporter in the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation Movements |
31 Women's Rights Law Reporter 190 (Winter/Spring 2010) |
First, I want to thank Professor Suzanne Kim for initiating this Symposium and to thank Rutgers Law School for, once again, supporting women's efforts to reshape the law and the world. Although I am Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's Deputy Commissioner for Equal Employment Opportunity for New York City, this article is written in my personal capacity. I...; Search Snippet: ...History of Women and the Law the Origins of the Women's Rights Law Reporter in the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation Movements Diane Crothers Copyright (C) 2010 Women's Rights Law... |
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| Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Hella Winston |
The Salience of Gender in the Choice of Law Careers in the Public Interest |
18 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy 21 (2009-2010) |
Contrary to the popular belief that women prefer to engage in work that is in the caring sector of the workplace, most women law students, like their male counterparts, choose legal careers in commercial practice rather than in the do-good, not-for-profit sphere of the law. Indeed, women have made choices contrary to this stereotype in other...; Search Snippet: ...Gender, Law & Social Policy 2009-2010 Articles the Salience of Gender in the Choice of Law Careers in the Public Interest... |
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| Leslie M. Rose |
The Supreme Court and Gender-neutral Language: Setting the Standard or Lagging Behind? |
17 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 81 (January, 2010) |
[T]he law lives through language and we must be very careful about the language we use. Law students learn the law and the language of the law from casebooks - casebooks filled with Supreme Court opinions. So, for example, when students begin Constitutional Law they will read Chief Justice John Marshall's influential 1803 opinion in Marbury v....; Search Snippet: ...Gender Law & Policy January, 2010 Articles the Supreme Court and Gender-neutral Language: Setting the Standard or Lagging Behind? Leslie M... |
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| Deborah Dinner |
The Universal Childcare Debate: Rights Mobilization, Social Policy, and the Dynamics of Feminist Activism, 1966-1974 |
28 Law and History Review 577 (August, 2010) |
Beginning in the late 1960s, diverse strands of the modern women's movement-- liberal, radical, and African American feminists--envisioned childcare as a right. In movement tracts, organizational newsletters, and underground journals, feminists theorized women and children's rights to universal childcare, the state's obligation to provide funding...; Search Snippet: ...Childcare Debate: Rights Mobilization, Social Policy, and the Dynamics of Feminist Activism, 1966-1974 Deborah Dinner [Fna1] Copyright © 2010 by The... |
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| Karla Mari McKanders |
The Unspoken Voices of Indigenous Women in Immigration Raids |
14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Just. 1 (Fall 2010) |
Like the canary's distress, which alerted miners to poison in the air, issues of race point to conditions in American society that endanger us all. --Lani Guinier, The Miner's Canary Like the canary in the mine, the voices of indigenous Guatemalan women detained in immigration raids signal conditions within the immigration system in need of change....; Search Snippet: ...And the Law Symposium Article the Unspoken Voices of Indigenous Women in Immigration Raids Karla Mari Mckanders [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010... |
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| John Stogner |
The War on Whiskey in the Womb: Assessing the Merit of Challenges to Statutes Restricting the Alcohol Intake of Pregnant Women |
7 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 259 (Spring, 2010) |
I. Introduction. 260 II. The Concerns over Drinking While Pregnant. 261 III. The Statutes in Question. 266 IV. Debunking the Arguments Against Restricting Alcohol Use in Pregnancy. 272 A. Addressing Privacy Concerns. 273 B. Equal Protection Concerns. 278 i. The Gender Argument. 278 ii. The Pregnancy Status Argument. 281 iii. The Socioeconomic...; Search Snippet: ...Of Challenges to Statutes Restricting the Alcohol Intake of Pregnant Women John Stogner [Fn1] Copyright © 2010 by Rutgers University School Of... |
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| Geneva Brown |
The Wind Cries Mary--the Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Reentry: Challenges for African-american Women |
24 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 625 (Summer 2010) |
To deliver up bodies destined for profitable punishment, the political economy of prisons relies on racialized assumptions of criminality--such as images of black welfare mothers reproducing criminal children--and on racist practices in arrest, conviction, and sentencing patterns. Angela Davis warned of the impending growth of the prison industrial...; Search Snippet: ...2010 Article the Wind Cries Mary--the Intersectionality of Race, Gender, and Reentry: Challenges for African- American Women Geneva Brown [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2010 St. John's University; Geneva... |
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| Sara Manzano-Díaz |
The Women's Bureau |
37-SUM Human Rights 12 (Summer, 2010) |
The Work of this Bureau lies not in discovering the statistics, but in making the statistics human, so that we can know the public opinion based upon facts and that is what we do not have and what we need very much. --Mary E. McDowell, head of the University of Chicago Settlement, March 4, 1920 Ninety years ago, in 1920, Congress created the...; Search Snippet: ...2010 Wl 5820196 Human Rights Human Rights Summer, 2010 the Women's Bureau a Continuous Fight Against Inequality Sara Manzano-díaz [Fna1... |
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| Arline Jolles Lotman |
Three Women Justices All at the Same Time: Have Women's Rights and Equality Really Gone Too Far?(!) |
32-DEC Pennsylvania Lawyer 52 (November/December, 2010) |
Well, that liberal U.S. Senate did it again -- and with some votes from those wild-eyed progressive Republicans. Elena Kagan's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court was confirmed almost one year to the day after the Senate confirmed Justice Sonia Sotomayor. They now sit with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who joined the court in 1993. Doesn't anyone...; Search Snippet: ...Pennsylvania Lawyer November/december, 2010 Special Technology Report Commentary Three Women Justices All at the Same Time: Have Women's Rights and Equality Really Gone Too Far?(!) Arline Jolles Lotman... |
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| Taunya Lovell Banks |
Thurgood Marshall, the Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts |
18 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 15 (Fall 2010) |
Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer during the black protest movement in the 1930s. He represented civil rights protesters, albeit reluctantly, but was ambivalent about post-Brown mass protests. Although Marshall recognized law's limitations, he felt more comfortable using litigation as a tool for...; Search Snippet: ...The Law Fall 2010 Thurgood Marshall, the Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts Taunya Lovell Banks [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Mark Curriden |
Tipping the Scales |
96-JUL ABA Journal 37 (July, 2010) |
Once a year, the chief justices of the Southern state supreme courts gather to share experiences, learn from judicial educators, discuss trends that are common in the court systems of the Deep South and seek solutions. Last year, when the elite group of jurists gathered in Nashville, Tenn., they recognized that they themselves are a trend: Eight of...; Search Snippet: ...Journal July, 2010 Feature Tipping the Scales in the South, Women Have Made Huge Strides in the State Judiciaries Mark Curriden... |
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| Rhacel Salazar Parreñas |
Transnational Mothering: a Source of Gender Conflicts in the Family |
88 North Carolina Law Review 1825 (June, 2010) |
Migration destabilizes families or what we think families should look like, as it forces the transformation of households from nuclear to transnational structures, challenges the traditional gender division of labor, and imposes the barrier of geographical distance on marital and intergenerational relations. Looking at the case of migration from...; Search Snippet: ...3: Families and Global Migration Transnational Mothering: a Source of Gender Conflicts in the Family [Fna1] Rhacel Salazar Parreñas [Fnaa1] Copyright... |
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